Late Hollywood socialite Raquel Welch’s previously confessed why she never barred all despite being a “sex symbol” of her era.
The 82-year-old film actress reportedly died following a “brief illness” her family shared with TMZ.
Raquel, who starred in movie classics, including Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C, quickly became an idolised industry heartthrob during her plight to fame and was adored for her good looks.
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In a previous interview, Raquel opened up about she refused to take all her clothes off on screen or pose naked throughout her career, as it was not the way she had been brought up.
She told Piers Morgan on his Life Stories show in 2015: “I am my father’s daughter and that’s just not the way you behave.
“You don’t do that if you are a certain kind of a woman and that’s the kind of woman I was raised to be.
“There were times when I disliked him quite a lot but at the same time I had enormous respect for him. I really did want to please him.”
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The late Hollywood socialite, who became a pin-up model in the 60s and 70s after appearing in sultry sex-clam movies such as Flareup and Bedazzled, turned down Hugh Hefner even after he called her “boring”.
The actress eventually posed for his Playboy magazine in 1979, donning a high-cut red swimsuit, and received her full paycheck even without the full nudity photo shoot.
She recalled: “I got called into the front office to speak with Hugh in his bathrobe. I went over to the mansion and I brought my lawyer with me and I sat there in front of him and I said, ‘What’s the problem Hugh?’ and he said, ‘Well there’s no tits and there’s no ass’.
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“I said, ‘Isn’t that the deal we made?” He said, “Yes, but it’s boring’.”
Raquel’s family confirmed her death, but no other information about her passing has been released.
During her five-decade-long career, the Hollywood icon took home a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress with an incredible performance in The Three Musketeers in 1974.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
